ICLARIFIED - Nov 4 - Apple continues to dominate the smart watch market, holding onto its sizable lead through the second quarter of Apple Watch shipments. In Q3 Apple was the only smart watch vendor to ship more than 300,000 units. The quarter also saw the release of the Pebble Time Steel, which helped the company ship more than 200,000 total smart watches, while Samsung’s Gear shipments declined ahead of the Q4 release of the Gear S2.

DIGITAL TRENDS - Oct 29 - Reports from South Korea suggest Samsung has sold 600K wearable units in the 3rd quarter, but that sales figure pales in comparison to the 4.5M reported Apple Watch sales during the same 3-month period. Strategy Analytics noted 6.1M wearable sales during the July-September period. Apple took the lion’s share with 72.8%, while Samsung slumped into second with 9.8%.

FORTUNE - Oct 26 - The cognitive computing wunderkind is pairing its artificial intelligence with the mobile sensing power of Apple's smartwatch to create a health platform that can interact and adapt to each individual user. It's the first time Watson's super computing power will be used with the Apple Watch to transform how people manage their wellbeing. It all happens within an app called CaféWell Concierge, Powered by Watson.

VENTURE BEAT - Oct 26 - MasterCard is partnering with a variety of appliance makers to make Internet-connected devices capable of payments.This new service is the next phase of a program it launched a year ago called MasterCard Digital Enablement Services (MDES). Initially MDES was what powered Apple Pay on the iPhone 6 and the Apple Watch. Now it’s partnering with General Motors and wearables startups to allow their devices to make payments.

CNBC - Oct 26 - The global roll-out of Apple Watches been slow-paced, heightening anticipation for the wearables. Six months after its global launch, India is part of Apple's tenth wave of releases. The previous launch was in Chile, Philippines and South Africa on October 23.

T3 - Oct 17 - EpiWatch is the first ResearchKit app for the Apple Watch; using the smartwatch’s sensors, combined with the iPhone app to record seizures and better understand epilepsy. The app works by collecting data from the smartwatch automatically through the sensors on the smartwatch before, during and after epileptic seizures, so that sufferers of epilepsy can track and monitor their condition.

WAREABLE - Oct 5 - The research and analytics firm JeeQ Data uses the rankings and lists on Amazon and BestBuy to estimate sales, and found, in terms of devices sold in Q3 2015 on Amazon, that the Soyan 2014 U8 U Watch as the best seller (a $20 Chinese smartwatch) with the Motorola Moto 360 close behind, Pebble in third, and the 42mm Apple Watch came in fourth.

NY TIMES - Sep 10 - The Apple Watch Hermès is effectively a hybrid. It has the same Apple Watch body that was unveiled in September — in the same sizes (38 millimeters and 42 millimeters); and with the same weight, albeit with improved functionalities. But it adds digital versions of some signature Hermès watch faces — the Clipper, Cape Cod and Espace.. There is also a trio of signature leather Hermès straps in different colors: the Single Tour (a thin strap), the Double Tour (a strap that wraps twice around your wrist) and the Cuff (a wide leather bracelet) style.

COMPUTERWORLD - Sep 4 - Chinese app analytics company, TalkingData, confirm that 41.4% of Apple Watch users are based in the biggest Chinese cities, but interest in the product is spreading across the country. (Beijing and Shanghai between them account for 35.5% of Apple Watch users).

GEEK SNACK - Sep 2 - According to an insider the new wearable is supposedly going to reinvent the wheel and the people working on the device are more open about innovation this time around. The features of the new watch will be open to third-party developers and access is going to be made much easier with a new development community.

TECHCRUNCH - Aug 27 - According to a new report from IDC, Apple is now the number two wearable maker, thanks to its Apple Watch, coming in just behind market leader Fitbit during Q2 of 2015. Apple shipped 3.6M units in Q2 2015, just 0.8M units shy of Fitbit’s total 4.4M units. Those figures mean that Apple now has nearly 20% of the wearables market, while Fitbit has just over 24%. Other wearables of interest during Q2 included Xiaomi’s Mi Band, Garmin’s fitness trackers for runners, cyclists and swimmers, and Samsung’s Gear S and Gear Fit devices.

COMPLETE MUSIC UPDATE - Aug 26 - The Eventbrite ticketing app is now available for Apple Watch, Android Wear and Pebble Time, so promoters selling tickets via the platform will now be able to check-in punters by scanning the code displayed on their wrist. Punters will also be able to use to the app to discover events that are happening near their wrist and be able to buy tickets through their watch.

CTIMES - Aug 19 - According to Tractica, Apple Watch will succeed in capturing 68% of total smart watch market share worldwide by the end of 2015, with approximately 16.7 million Apple Watch shipments out of a total market of 24.4 million smart watches. The report examines the technology issues, market opportunities, and barriers for smart watches and the relevant application markets including consumer, enterprise, industrial, public safety, healthcare, and sports.

IT WORLD CANADA - Aug 19 - Salesforce research reveals that 79% of executives from companies using or piloting wearable technology described it as "a priority" for their future business strategy. That 76% of early adopters were claiming an increase in productivity, and 86% plan to invest more in wearable technology.

OUTSIDE ONLINE - Aug 6 - In Jay Blahnik's first extended interview since Apple hired him to help launch the Watch, the company’s director of fitness for health technologies insists activity tracking is overemphasized, elite athletes have a sitting problem, and the real breakthrough apps for the device will probably be created outside of Cupertino.

DIGITAL TRENDS - Aug 16 - Six additional stainless steel links are included in the kit for $49, the bracelet size can now be extended to fit wrists that are larger than 205mm in diameter. With the additional 40 mm of wiggle room, those with more sizeable appendages (up to 245 mm around) will be able to comfortably don an Apple Watch.

BUSINESS INSIDER - Aug 10 - BI Intelligence reports three times as many people are interested in a smartwatch from Apple, over one running the Android platform. A significant 27% of respondents interested in the Apple Watch said they already wear a watch and that the added functionality of a connected watch appeals to them. Fitness bands have more limited functionality and will cater to a more niche, health-focused audience.

MASHABLE - Aug 3 - The Swiss luxury timepiece has a special bracelet that lets users attach a 38mm Apple Watch. The outside-facing watch is a classic-looking piece with a 41mm case with Swiss-made NG2824A automatic movement. Other features include a date indicator and water resistance rated to 100m depths of pressure. The watch comes in stainless steel with a black or blue dial, or 18 karat gold with a red dial.

TJC NEWSPAPER - Aug 2 - Juniper Research estimates that the revenue from Apple Watch sales can be almost $1 billion from 2 million to 2.5 million units. The report reveals that the global smartwatch shipments grew whopping 457% annually from one million units in Q2 of 2014 to a record 5.3 million in Q2 of 2015.

MAC WORLD - Jul 22 - According to a report by Strategy Analytics, in just three months, the Apple Watch has managed to capture 75.5% of the global smartwatch market share, shipping an estimated 4 million units to vendors all over the world.The report also found that during that same period Samsung’s smartwatch market share plummeted from 73.6% marketshare down to 7.5%. Other smartwatch makers have also seen a decline in market share because of the Apple Watch—going from 26.4% to 17%.